World oxygen levels

I’m currently bogged down in an over-the-shoulder crafting blur, vicariously depleting gold and recommending several YouTube-approved crazy material gathering runs as I get my husband acquainted with Guild Wars 2‘s crafting system. I’ve been ill for last week or two and have spent each night this week helping him through the experience as a wind-down activity to try and encourage my eyelids to finally close. Watching him progress made me think about what it takes to create a mechanically engaging crafting system that doesn’t act as an at-best inconvenient time sink or at worst a snore-inducing snoozefest. A great crafting system should consist of so much more than a tired old “clickety-clack, look in my pack, look at that stack of crap grow” grind, and in this edition of MMO Mechanics, I want to discuss what developers can do to ease the grind mechanically. I’m sticking with mechanic headers instead of game titles here because I … [Read more...] about MMO Mechanics: Creating engaging crafting mechanics

Arghh…The Smart man syndrome!
This one is long yet very interesting.
I can’t live without oxygen, food, books and most important gadgets. It will be all right for me to live without food and books for a few days. But if anyone will try to keep me away from my mobile, tablet and laptop, I will hit in his face with a club.
I am a lifelong learner. I don’t know how to sit idle and do nothing at all. I don’t gossip.
I don’t watch movies.
But I love spending time with gadgets.
I am a tech-embracing consumer.
I think I’ve spent my time on my mobile, tablet, kindle and laptop more than anyone else on this planet — 10 hours a day, sometimes 13 hours a day or even more.
I am not mad. I am a normal being like you. In fact, I am productive more than the people I spend time with.
Everyone on this planet is given the same 24 hours in the day. I make sure that I don’t sleep more than 6-7 hours a day.
After waking … [Read more...] about 21 Secret Android Mobile Apps For The Improved Productivity

No doubt that WordPress is the most used content management system in the world. There’s a reason why most people use WordPress as their CMS (or) blogging platform and the reason is it’s secure and properly optimized for the search engines. If you are a WordPress beginner and searching for ways to take your blogging skills to the next level, this guide is especially for you. In this detailed guide, I’m going to share you the best WordPress tips for beginners. Essential WordPress tips for beginners Be it all in one SEO or SEO by Yoast, you need to install a SEO plugin if you want to get organic traffic from search engines. You may ask, why I need a SEO plugin. A SEO plugin makes it easy for you to optimize your posts and pages for search engines so you don’t have to worry much about extra things. I would strongly recommend you to install All in one SEO pack plugin if you are a beginner to WordPress. You just need to create posts, and this plugin takes care of … [Read more...] about 15 Essential WordPress Tips for Beginners

Blogging to me is something which I enjoy. I started blogging, because I like documenting, and sharing things which I enjoy. If you are a regular reader of ShoutMeLoud, you would know here I share about Blogging, WordPress, SEO, technology, Social media and internet marketing. I could have stick to any single, smaller niche, but after blogging for years I know one thing “Blogging for me is my voice” , and I will write about anything that I learn in my journey. This is a short version of what Blogging meant to me, and in reality I could probably write an eBook on my thoughts about blogging. I’m sure you have your version of what blogging is for you?, and to find out this, I asked ShoutMeLoud readers on our Facebook fan page. Along with this, I also decided to give away one single user license of SEOPressor plugin. Winning comment is at the end, and lets see what others feel about blogging. Though, all answers are great, but I’m picking up only those who grabbed … [Read more...] about What Is Blogging For you? [Shouter Answers]

I’ve tried many ways to make money online, and never succeeded… but I still kept trying. Here’s my story: Let me first tell you about Tally. Tally is a leading Indian accounting software which is easy to understand and manage. In fact, not too long ago, the words “accounting” and “Tally” were synonymous. Some years back, I was facing some technical problems in Tally. I tried to find out a solution over the net, and I found a very good blog which helped me. Then I started studying and visiting the blog daily. I started talking a lot about Tally, and I started telling people to use it. I decided the best way to advocate for this software was to start a blog (like the blog I was reading). So in 2006, I started my first blog, but time constraints led me to not pursue it very seriously. Now, after one year of active blogging, I feel it worthwhile to share my experiences. My Experience As A Blogger Before blogging, I would surf the net a lot. I … [Read more...] about How Blogging Changed My Life As An Accountant